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...crippled the Jap battleship, but a 14-in. salvo found the cruiser's bridge and killed Admiral Callaghan and Captain Cassin Young (who when blown into the water off the Arizona at Pearl Harbor swam back to his ship and resumed the fight). It knocked out Lieut. Commander Bruce McCandless, 31, third in command on the bridge at the time. When McCandless came to, he saw that he was "Sopus"—Navy for senior officer present. It was up to him to get the ship out. He got to his feet, took command of the ship, kept her proudly...
...power meant quick promotions for the violently pro-Nazi; quick resignations for others; for still others, a ratlike scurry across the Mediterranean to the side of Admiral Jean François Darlan, Marshal Pétain's retired colleague General Maxime Weygand refused to reassume his African command and was promptly seized by the Nazis as a hostage for brave old General Henri Honoré Giraud who had got across the Mediterranean to join the Allies...
...start of World War I, Colonel Pétain, 54, was about to be retired. A careful planner and able artillery tactician, frugal with the lives of his men, he rose to command of the Second Army at the defense of Verdun in 1916. To him was credited the line: "They shall not pass." When the armies of the Crown Prince were crushed in 130 days of fighting that covered an advance of only four miles and cost 300,000 lives, Pétain emerged as a legendary hero. But numerous French leaders of the time later accused...
...train astronomical numbers of young men to fly delicate complex machines thought they might have hit upon a way to save some of the young men from dying early, some of the machines from being smashed. Hard-pressed to turn out more pilots quicker,* the Flying Command scheme is simple: teach the teachers. Throughout his huge, 56-station Southeast Training Command, Major General Ralph Royce has set up Advisory Training Boards (formerly called Flying Evaluation Boards) to comb over the instructors, re-educate them if necessary...
...Director Elmer Davis, whom the U.S. trusts, last week spoke up for the Navy in answer to Congressman Melvin Maas's criticisms of Army-Navy command and cooperation (TIME, Nov. 23). Elmer Davis' best point (which he failed to emphasize): however right Colonel (Marine Corps Reserve) Melvin Maas was about conditions as he saw them in September, matters have improved since he was in the Pacific battle area...